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melocotonerocac's avatar
5 years ago
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Mass Effect 3 (LE) won't start

I have the game in Origin and today it showed it had to be updated, so I did, but EA Desktop stopped working, and when I restarted the app it started downloading the whole game instead of the update, I tried to fix it but had to just re-download it and install it again. (This time on Origin instead of EA desktop)

The Legendary Edition's launch launches with no issue, such as ME1 and ME2, but ME3 (the one I was playing before the "update") just tries to launch, goes black and gets me back to the first launcher.

I've spent the afternoon trying to fix this but nothing works, I'd appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance!

  • @melocotonerocaca 

    Did you tired to repair the game?


    (Origin > Game Library > right click MELE > Repair)
    (Steam > Game Library > right click at MELE > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game files.)

    If that don't helps create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that  with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window. 

     

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  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @Mauddib 

    Please preform a clean boot and test the Game in clean boot mode.

    Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled in clean boot mode.

    Make also sure that your GPU & CPU are not overclocked.

  • AlexBabz500's avatar
    AlexBabz500
    5 years ago

    Same thing happened to me, turns out I mistakenly deleted a file from the CookedPCConsole folder, luckily for me the file was still in recycle bin and that saved me time on having to repair the game through Origin. Once I restored the deleted file the game started working.

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